Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to confuse, to outwit.

1668		J. Wilson (trans.) Erasmus Moriae Encomium (1509) 2: [T]heir sort, who, nowadays, buzle Young-mens heads with certain empty notions, and curious trifles, yet teach them nothing.
c.1790		‘De Kilmainham Minit’ in Luke Caffrey’s Gost 5: For he was de smart on de Gap, / He boozl’d de Bull dog and pinners.